R was diagnosed with Autism 2 years backs. R is now 4 years old. We started SON-RISE program with R couple of weeks backs. SON-RISE is a Play-therapy program that I am volunteering for . The Play-Therapy is associated with son-rise.org to cure his symptoms related to Autism. I refer to word Green Light sometimes which means getting eye contact from R. When I refer to Stimming , it is the repetitive behavior R does while lost in his world
Usually I am suppose to volunteer with R on Wednesday. But I told R's parents they can call me anytime when they need me. So yesterday was one of the day, I think one of the volunteer may have quit or just did not called in.
I took my 2 yr old son with me. I left him to play with R's Mom and R's sister A. I took R downstairs in the son-rise playroom. I always start with giving him Pistachio to set him in a good mood to play with me. He ate pistachio and started stimming with pistachio shell in between his fingers. I did the same. He gave me eye contact for a minute and then got up.
This time he went up and down in straight line over the couch cushions on the floor . I did the same in parallel to him. He holded my hands, which meant "Lets go out of the room". I again explained him nicely that " I love u so much, lets play, more we play, more magic happens". He went back inside the room.
Now we played with colored scarves. I count 1,2,3 and released the colored scarves up in air at "Hurrah". I will wait for him to say "Hurrah", But presently he just makes some noise and will release the scarves with me, But he won't take it all the way up, He will just release them at his eye level. After that he will jump on trampoline as scarves are falling down !!
After that he sat down on trampoline and was touching his toes and was deep in his thoughts. I did the same thing.
Now he again wanted to go out of the playroom, so I distracted by playing running game. I will count 1,2,3 run and we ran. Then on second time, I waited for him to say something, He made some noise on each count .I praised him for making noises even though they were not exact words and we ran. He played this Twice only .
Now he went towards the wall and was trying to like push the wall with his face going left and right. I did the same thing.
Then suddenly he again wanted to go out side the room. This time I put my hair in front of my face and said " Where did I go"? He came to me and removed my hair. I tickled him and said "1,2,3 I see you" !! I will give him chance to say "I see you", but I could not get out even noise on that. This went on for about 25-30 minutes.
After that he started rolling on the floor, I rolled with him.
Now he seemed tired and was throwing away things in the playroom. Infact I asked for suggestions from my friends at Twitter as what to do in this situation?
To calm him down I gave him Playdough. He sat down for like 20 minutes stimming by rolling piece of playdough in his fingers. He does not like anyone else touching his play playdough. I already had taken small pieces of play dough before giving it to him. I started stimming with him. The times I brought play-dough in front of my eyes, He looked at me for couple of seconds.
After that he was ready to leave, so I praised him for letting me know even though it was by holding my hands and bringing me to the door.
As we were going up my son heard my voice and came running towards the door. R does not like someone standing in front of the door, when he is walking up from playroom, so he started screaming. I asked R's mom to come and I took my son away from the door to calm him down.
I am still waiting for longer eye contacts and words from R !!
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